14 Riley — New Quail-Dove from the West Indies. 



Remarks. — Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Columbse, 1873, 164) gives the 

 type of Temminck's Columba mystaeea as coming from the Island of 

 Hayti. I know of no recent record of the bird from that island. Tem- 

 minck's plate represents a bird without the dark rictal stripe and with 

 lighter underparts than any specimen I have been able to examine. 

 The U. S. National Museum possesses a specimen from Culebra Island 

 (reported from here for the first time) that comes nearer the plate of 

 mystaeea than any other specimen in the series before me. I take it to 

 represent true mystaeea and have compared the Saba bird with it. The 

 type of saba, though a female, is so very different from any of the other 

 specimens before me that I am unable to explain these differences on 

 account of sex. The dark color of the breast serves to distinguish it at 

 a glance from mystaeea. 



